When we think of commands or instructions in Scripture, we automatically think of the 10 Commandments. There are commands all throughout Scripture. The Bible is God’s way of communicating Himself to us. Through the Bible we get to know God, His character, His plan for our lives….and what He wants from us as His disciples. […]

Have you ever watched that show “Who Do You Think You Are”? A celebrity embarks on a journey through their lineage to find out the secrets their ancestors held, in an effort to learn who they are today. It’s fascinating. I love watching that show, even if I don’t know who half of those celebrities […]

There is a flaw that all mankind possesses. For some, this flaw is more pronounced than it is for others; but the older I get and the more I associate with people, the more I see this flaw in both them and in me. The flaw is this: The moment I find something that works […]

What do you do when life spins out of control? When your stomach is churning and your mind racing, what is your response? Some people stop eating, some people hide from their emotions in TV binge-ing or sleep. They drown it out in books or loud music. But this does nothing to actually calm our […]

I’ll never forget watching this young woman belt out her battle cry on America’s Got Talent. My family and I were sitting in our living room relaxing, my husband was flipping through channels on the TV and landed on a replay of America’s Got Talent. A young girl with cropped hair got up and shared […]

One of the things that happened for me with Adrenal Fatigue was that I felt dead inside. I felt almost nothing. It was like feelings were calling to me through a deep, deep fog. I could almost hear them…but then, maybe they were just a figment of my imagination. As I’ve been healing – and […]

Do you ever feel hung-over in your soul? You know that feeling when the day before you allowed your emotions to get out of control and you got angry or panicky….and afterward, try as you might, you just couldn’t seem to get all the way to peace… …and you wake up the next morning feeling […]

Are you tired? Are you like, feeling like life is rushing along at breakneck speed while you are be dragged behind it. flailing and flapping in the wind? Do you often feel stressed out, anxious, and worried about how you’re going to fit everything in your already tight schedule? Just this morning, I sat down […]

As many of you know, I am on the leadership team for Good Morning Girls and lead the Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian chapter. Earlier this month, a friend of mine, and fellow missionary to Serbia, opened an English-speaking Facebook study group called Good Morning Girls In the Word. We invite you to join us as […]

Nearly 1/3 of the world population claims to be Christian. Christianity is the world’s largest religion, followed by Islam, which makes up just under 1/4 of the world population. Looking at these statistics, one would think that Christians would have reason to be encouraged and happy that over 2 billion people self-identity as Christians. But […]

This is a question that is on a lot of people’s minds right now. Are we, as Christians, allowed to criticize the President? And if we are, is there a line that can be crossed? Is God displeased when we criticize the President and if I choose not to criticize him, is that my silent approval? […]

The danger we run into as Christians when we read familiar stories of the Bible, like David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale, Jericho, the men in the fiery furnace, is that we approach those stories much like Goldilocks and the Three Bears…. like a fairy tale, rather than a true story that actually happened […]

Can a Christian delude themselves into thinking that they are worshiping God, when in fact they are engaging in witchcraft? Sound a little incredulous? And yet, there are three enemies of our soul that, if left unconquered, will not only lead us into great delusion and destruction, they will actually turn our worship into […]

Are you happy? I don’t mean at this very moment; I mean, do you live a perpetually happy life? Yes, I know there are the Tiggers of this world who naturally see the cup as half-full, and the Eyores who naturally see it half-empty. But despite our personality traits, with which we are born and […]

What is worship, really? Yes, I know that it’s the part of the service when we sing worship songs. But is that all worship is? Is worship just the singing part? Is worship just a style of song or singing? These are questions I asked myself about 15 years ago when I began to sense […]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana We see that Moses understood this when we read Deuteronomy. The word Deuteronomy literally means “second law”, and while it isn’t actually a second law, it is a repeat of the law God gave Moses and the Israelites in the desert. Moses […]

I recently read a short article that my uncle shared on Facebook. My uncle is really cool. He’s a professional jazz singer and musician. He lived with us for a while when I was a little girl and I remember how he’d take his guitar, open the Bible and start singing verses. He’d often write […]

For the past three years I’ve tried to plant a garden. I think that it would be really wonderful to have our own tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, so that whenever we need vegetables we can just go out and pick our own fresh, organic food. I believe the soil around our house is great for […]

Do you know why salvation is so hard for people to understand? Because it’s based in a completely different culture. Our culture understands investment and returns. Our culture understands decisions and consequences. It understands labor and wages. But it doesn’t understand grace and undeserved favor. In fact, many find these ideas humiliating, because we are […]

The other day I heard about some families who had purchased condos in a building that hadn’t yet been completed. The top floor remained unfinished because the building project had failed. But the problem continued when it started to rain. Because the top floor wasn’t completed, the ceilings in the floor beneath it were not […]

I lay in the hospital bed and listened to the woman next to me cry out, “Why me?” A few days earlier they had found a lump on her breast, something every woman fears. She was still in a state of shock as she walked about the room crying and asking no one in particular, […]

Sometimes its hard to be a Christian Christianity is a balancing act of being an example of Christ’s life in us and honesty. It’s not easy to balance these two things, because its not sincere to act like we don’t have real problems, but it is not a good testimony when the world doesn’t see […]

It’s not a sin to have sorrow. If someone ever tells you that Christians should never be sad, don’t believe them because even Jesus was sad at times…and wept. This week Good Morning Girls began reading in the book of Job and in the very first chapter we see that Job’s sorrow was great. In […]

I’ve heard the faulty theology countless times and it disturbs me. “If God didn’t want me to have this, He would take away my desire for it.” Nowhere in the Word do we see our desire for something as an indicator for God’s will. I suppose people arrive at this conclusion because of their own […]

Every sin of mankind can be boiled down to these three things: lust, greed and pride. 1 John 2:16 Often we see all three roots at work together. Lust leads to greed and pride rationalizes why we deserve that thing and that no one will find out what we’ve done. This concept is clearly seen […]